How much does fake conferences make each year? The cost of setting up a web site, send emails to academics to invite them to submit articles (you usually have to pay to publish and the “peer review” … well, 😬) or do something else, and then cash in on the fees people pay must be quite rewarding.
I’m not an active researcher and I still get 10-30 invitations per week. This is a part of the latest one:
It is my pleasure to invite you as a Distinguished Speaker at International Conference on Materials Science and Advanced Composite Materials
Anyone who have done the slightest background check before making an invitation like this would realize that I have zero knowledge of this subject. OK, I took a materials course some 40 years ago … “distinguished speaker” bahahahahahaha.
However, this is better than usual, it’s normally says something like this
“Based on your research records we would like to invite you as the keynote speaker at the Most Famous Conference in Geoscience” another area of which I have zero knowledge and have done no research whatsoever.
There has to be a lot of money in creating fake conferences !!!!
Jag gillar kombinationen
I will never understand the pricing of air travel, just payed less than half the price of the shortest route by spending a couple of hours more in the air 🤷🏻♂️
I suppose I should make a traditional walpurgis photo post (although I’ve never heard that we are celebrating any saint, just that spring is here. I see it as the little sister of midsummer)
Det kan väl aldrig vara ett scam-mejl om rubriken är “SVAR BEHÖVS SNÖDJANDE” ???
(jag har tydligen fått en donation på 1.9 miljoner Euro!!)
Nope, I’m not going out the ice
Det verkar som om de medelålders männen i tights har tinat fram
Dagen började bra, två älgar gick över vägen på väg till jobbet. Ståtliga djur.
Ibland hajar man till
I didn’t expect that but for my searches Ecosia is way better than Google, DuckDuckGo (Bing). Pleasantly surprised
Interesting. An opinion poll says that 7 of 10 Swedes no longer considers the US to be a democracy (I agree).
Also a democracy report, “Varieties of Democracy”, says that the situation in the US has gotten much worse during the last year. One professor comments that “Democracy under Trump is falling like like a rock”
Säkert vårtecken
Software by Microsoft, especially their server software, are such an horrible user experience that my blood pressure goes up every time I have to use … which means that my blood pressure is constantly too high.
I will be such a relief when I retire and never have to use this crap again.
I have problems understanding LinkedIn. To me it seems like it’s a place to tell everybody how well things are going and how exciting things are. LinkedIn itself think I should engage (like?) different posts, and play games (??). Am I missing something or is a 2026 version of FB in 2016?
